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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, YOUTH AND SPORT OF UKRAINE
KYIV STATE INSTITUTE OF DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN NAMED AFTER MYKHAILO BOYCHUK


Work and life of Caspar David Friedrich
the paper on course “English language”



Written by: student of Decorative and applied art faculty
Sukhopara Dmytro Yevgenyevich



Approved by: lecturer Datsenko N. A.






Kyiv– 2012
Contents

Introduction………………………………………………………………………….3
Life
Early years and family……………………......................................................5
Move to Dresden……………………………………………………………...7
Marriage………………………………………………………………………9
Later life and death…………………………………………………………..11
Legacy
Influence……………………………………………………………………..13
Critical opinion………………………………………………………………15
Work…………………………………………………………………………17

Introduction

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
Friedrich was born in the Swedish Pomeranian town of Greifswald, where he began his studies in art as a youth. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798,...

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